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Amazon limits Plan B purchases after demand spike

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“limiting purchases”, more like “limiting panic buying causing shortages”. You can still purchase birth control, unless you need more than 3 packages per week.

This is happening across a few large retailers[1] (Walmart, CVS). It's what happens when people panic and try to buyout the store's stock.

From the article:

> Since Roe was overturned on Friday, many people who can get pregnant have expressed their interest in stockpiling the pill. Sarah McKenna, a 21-year-old spiritual adviser and tarot card reader in Saylorsburg, Pa., told The New York Times this week that she went on Amazon to buy pills “not only for myself but for those who need it, because people are going to buy them and resell them for a crazy price.”

1 - https://news.yahoo.com/cvs-walmart-rationing-plan-b-02331539...

>Sarah McKenna, a 21-year-old spiritual adviser and tarot card reader in Saylorsburg, Pa., told The New York Times this week...

An aside, how does that happen? Does a NYT reporter think "we need to get a spiritual advisor's take on this"? Or is she on a list at the office of 'people who generate interesting quotes?'

Also, I just realized that they did this:

>many people who can get pregnant

instead of

>many women

I wonder if that was deliberate?

>>many people who can get pregnant

>instead of

>>many women

>I wonder if that was deliberate

I grew up around gender queer and androgynous people and thus I am used to using they/them and people instead of classifying a group of people by their gender. So I naturally speak/write in a less gender classified way without deliberate intent and I see this writing as just that. (Though obviously that is my bias.)

Other points aside, children, that are reasonable to not describe as women, can get pregnant.

> many people who can get pregnant

- not all women can get pregnant

- not all people who can get pregnant are women

Literally no one ever is going to be mad if you say women instead of people who can be pregnant but for those who are the exceptions to the rule it’s sometimes nice to acknowledge they exist.

As an aside, what this demand spike illustrates is that the average human is bad at predicting disasters.

As soon as Barrett was confirmed replacing Ginsberg, Roe’s days were numbered. Add to that the Supreme Court agreeing to hear Dobbs. Then you actually have the unprecedented leaked opinion with 5 justices concurring.

This was one of the most predictable Supreme Court decisions.

Yet people were still caught flat footed.

This does not give me much hope for climate change.

https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-parado...

The 6 right wing judges are going to ban these sort of medications and contraceptives and roll back the civil rights act while they are at it.

don't worry, the 9 left wing justices once the courts are packed will override them and enshrine the right to kill your children so long as they are considered a minor (up to 18, or even 21). it might get hairy once the court is further packed and the right wing justices reverse that decision and decide everyone who isn't a 28 year old 6'7" white male with blue eyes should be put in a fire pit.

in other words, stop it.

For those who are unfamiliar with “Plan B”, it’s a pharmaceutical that is considered over-the-counter abortifacient.

No, it is not considered abortifacient, that is just unfounded propaganda from religious extremists.

Mayo clinic on the subject:

> Plan B One-Step is a type of morning-after pill that can be used after unprotected sex to prevent pregnancy. Plan B One-Step contains the hormone levonorgestrel — a progestin — which can prevent ovulation, block fertilization or keep a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/morning-after-pi...

Seems a bit harsh to call anyone who holds it to be an abortifacient a “religious extremist”. A quick google of the question would show you that it’s a contended definition.

My quick Google only returned religious sources supporting that contended definition, no mention in medical sources.

Do you disagree with Mayo Clinic that it can "keep a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus", or do you disagree that doing that constitutes an abortion?

The latter, presumably. An unimplanted egg isn't usually considered a pregnancy except by religious extremists.

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